...for a two-state solution.What really matters is the day after. If Obama withdraws financial support to the Palestinian government - as he has hinted earlier - he would have to consider its inflaming impact on the Arab street in the new climate...

...Republican to agree on the time of day in Congress, but dozens have joined hands in a misguided effort to punish the Palestinian government for unilaterally seeking recognition as a state by the United Nations.The legislators have threatened to end...

...into Mideast peacemaking earlier this year because, she said, she saw an opportunity in the rise of a moderate Palestinian government in the West Bank and a common interest of Israel and many Arab states in checking Iranian-backed extremism...

The idea was laudable. No direct U.S. or international aid should go to any Palestinian government that sanctions terrorism and that does not recognize Israel's right to exist. Sound off on the important issues at So when Hamas...

...bomber struck a Tel Aviv restaurant during Passover, killing nine people; in a sharp departure from the previous Palestinian government's condemnations of bombings, the Hamas-led administration said the attack resulted from Israel's "brutal...

...In 2006, Osama bin Laden issued new threats in an audiotape broadcast on Arab television and accused the United States and Europe of supporting a "Zionist" war on Islam by cutting off funds to the Hamas-led Palestinian government.

...and we have found ourselves going along the track proposed in the Camp David Agreements of 1978: autonomous Palestinian government for five years, only at the end of which the negotiations on permanent status would begin. A month after the...

...recognition from Palestine forces Palestine to contest with Israel with one arm behind its back. In recent months the Palestinian government has been on a diplomatic offensive, seeking recognition from states that so far have not accorded it. With...

...war, one that could reignite in the aftermath of a U.S. recognition of statehood by making control of the Palestinian government that much more important to each faction. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad...

...shot to death execution-style - as Iraq edged closer to open civil warfare. Israel raided a jail in the West Bank town of Jericho, seizing six militants, after the new Hamas-led Palestinian government said it would release the men.